Michigan Student Study: A Study of Students in a Multiversity, 1962-1967

Freshmen students entering a large midwestern university in 1962 (N=2,207) and 1963 (N=2,161) were administered a two-hour questionnaire during the orientation period. Approximately 95% of the two cohort groups answered the questionnaire.

The initial freshmen questionnaire consisted of both precoded and open-ended items dealing with high school experience, anticipated college success, interests and values, and relationships with both family and peers. In the 2nd semester of their freshman year and at the end of their senior year, 450 students from each cohort group, half male and half female, were given a questionnaire which included items about university experience (including satisfaction with course work and living situation); process of decision making; relationships with faculty, family and peers; future expectations (including career goals and marital plans); the issue of career v. family (male and female perspective) and group membership while at the university.